State officials say hunters checked more than 17,000 wild turkeys during Ohio's spring and youth hunting seasons for those birds.

Spend a few days in Vegas, catch a rodeo event and go Christmas shopping for the sportsmen on your list. You can do all this at 2015 RMEF Hunter & Outdoor Christmas Expo.

Spring and summer are hunting, fishing, camping, and hiking seasons. It is also the time of year when ticks are out. Take precautions and avoid tick bites. They can be much more than just an inconvenience.

Nearly 100,000 turkey hunters statewide spend their mornings tiptoeing through forests and fields trying to entice a big gobbler into shooting range. About 30,000 of them find success each year, enough to catapult Michigan to the No. 7 spot for spring turkey hunting nationally.

Visitors can walk through a man-made cypress swamp, go bowling or shoot arrows at the archery range. A 105-room hotel designed like a hunting lodge has balconies overlooking the indoor swamp. There are also live ducks, alligators and fish.

Think about taking a kid or an adult who hasn’t hunted before the next time you go hunting. There are programs available to make it easier to take someone hunting for the first time.

Turkeys can be hunted with air rifles in California, Virginia and Maryland (fall only). Here's why airgun turkey hunting isn't as crazy as it sounds.

With more than 8,600 student athletes representing over 250 teams, clay target shooting has quickly become a favorite sport of Minnesota's high school students. It's also one of the safest, with zero reported injuries or gun-free zone violations since 2001.

Youth hunters in Ohio topped last year's totals in the annual youth turkey hunt over the weekend.

I recently visited the American Suppressor Association’s shoot outside of Nashville, Tennessee just prior to the NRA show. I walked away a sold-out fan of suppressed shooting, too.